Don'tcha know it would be a huge relief to be anonymous somewhere?!?

How tall is the fencing over the orchard, @Melissa in Australia? That must be an impressive sight!

Not me. Have you seen the videos of the 'gym-rat' kangaroos? Seriously, the shoulders and pecs on those critters are fearsome. I have no desire to meet one IRL.

Learning curve: did you know that raccoons pick a spot and establish a "racoon latrine". It's a very good, non-optional use for N95s when one is picking up what they leave behind. I also dug out the old bottle of predator urine in my shed, and put that to good use, and no more deposits overnight. I'll switch to peppermint oil when that arrives, and hope breaking them of the habit goes fairly quickly. I'm finishing planting out my overgrown seedlings, and then I'll need to replenish and start sunflower seedlings indoors. (Roly-polies are a menace.) I've emptied a compost bin, and feel like a rich woman. I'm making homemade Mel's mix (shredded coco coir, compost, and vermiculite) for all the pots and raised beds, and it's the most lovely thing.

No, not Colleen, although her family were dairy farmers, too. Perhaps the other family were simply farmers, not dairy, and I'm conflating something long ago.

That's the association in my mind, as well. But I don't remember what led me to that point.

@J-rap I'm not sure if it's the same one, but there was a homeschooling mom here whose family owned a dairy farm in the PNW(?) or maybe NorCal. She was a long time regular here, but life went off the rails in a number of ways, and her bounce back from all of that had her opening her own restaurant. I remember her name, but I'm not sure she's the same one you're talking about. She did pop back in here after a couple of years to let us know she was thriving, albeit in a far different way than what she had envisioned.

I was just cruising through the very old boards right quick, and I found this that I copy pasted from a fall date in the very early 2000s. (I'm being intentionally vague, and I deleted some specifics for privacy.) Posted by SWB on [Fall Date], 1900 at 14:46:35: <--After the millenium rolled over, the dates on the board-hosting software were wonky for a number of months.) E____ Bauer was born ____day afternoon at 2:30 (after six hours of labor, which shocked us all since my previous shortest labor was [long]). Unfortunately none of the suggestions for starting labor worked, so _______________________. But everything went smoothly (and fast) after that. Thanks for all the good advice and sympathy. E_______ was 7 1/2 pounds, 22 inches long, and she's now home surrounded by a ring of adoring brothers. I'll be back on the boards after a week or so. See y'all then! Susan There were a lot of fond memories on those archived boards, but seeing this was extra special. Many of us had chimed in earlier that week when Susan had mentioned still being pregnant, so this was very welcome news to the Hive, too.

Since Elizabeth86 mentioned not knowing about it, Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman) was a regular here in the very early days, back when the boards were in their first incarnation and would flip. She had a few kids, but I think she had one more after riding off into the sunset. She and MM were already married obviously, and she was homeschooling. Before she published High Heels to Tractor Wheels, she debuted it here chapter by chapter. (This was long before she had the blog. Her board handle was PW (or PDub?) and she did sign her posts as Ree. Fun times! 🙂

Does anyone know what happened to Creekland? I lost touch with her. 😞 I hope she's alright. If anyone knows her IRL, please tell her I was asking about her.

I'm so sorry; it's just so wrong. It does look like a bb shot to me, so my money is on kids being dingbats. But that doesn't make it hurt any less. (((Dmmetler)))

This won't be a question for everybody... 😁 I'm looking for additional artists who make complex jazzy/funky music, fast-paced, upbeat music, and occasionally add in an absolutely incredible vocalist, just to completely blow our minds. Got anyone I should add to my list? I don't spend much time listening to music, but I feel like I should "get out more" and try new artists. Thank you!

@Spryte, I just wanted to pop back in and say I'm sorry that went off on a tangent a bit. I can very much relate to struggling to know what to eat when one is ill, when food feels dangerous. Thinking of you and wishing you the best, as well as praying for you and yours.

She is doing much better, and didn't have the horrible post-COVID symptoms as badly after the third round of illness. She is in an area of the country that has great medical research facilities, and over time, her medical team has diagnosed and later abandoned the diagnosis for several different conditions. She tested positive for celiac (genetically) within the last 6-9 months. I won't go into all the 'innings', but POTS, months of nausea, devastating fatigue, damaged ligaments (negative for EDS), and on and on. She was researching MCAS and was surprised that I had been tracking that as one of the LC conversations. Past that, I don't have much knowledge re. MCAS.

@Spryte I missed this whole thread this week. I'm so sorry your dealing with this, and I wish you well as you continue your journey. Dd is dealing with something similar post_Modernas (first) and later 3x covid. She's been all over the board, and is getting better, but she's been told MCAS is likely and that she's celiac. (Thrill...) Hoping you are getting much better!

@Spryte @mlktwins Please add me to the elder board. Thanks!

Ha, sorry @Grace Hopper. I hadn't seen that you posted. It's nice I'm not the only one who remembers that story!

It was in an airport in Canada, and they were eating poutine and reading the forum on their phone. How in the world I remember that detail, I have zero idea, other than I remember trying to figure out how to pronounce poutine, and to this day, I couldn't tell you. 😄 ETA: I think we might be talking about two different celebs. One in the airport and the other one a (sometime) poster.

I will, but not until tomorrow. If I had responded in the moment, it would have been really ugly, and he doesn't deserve that. The rollout of the new time card software went horribly today. Next week, I'll get to input all the time card in/outs by hand for 34 people, for as many days as it take hr to figure things out. Many of the employees clock in and out at least twice, often three times daily. Gee, thanks, A Doofus corPoration. this too shall pass this too shall pass this too shall pass I'll spend tomorrow in the garden to regain some equanimity. 🙂 Dirt and earthworms are good for mental health.

I'm still working, dh is retired, and yes, he really does work a lot! Big, important projects. And I thank and respect him. But I'm in the middle of huge changes at work, trying to half-way meet an absolutely impossible deadline -- absolutely no way to meet it, so I'm trying to at least make progress on it while I tend to all the other forest fires. There are four big processes (the yearly institutional budget is one of them) that are similarly being changed, and one small process that took two hours of my time today to prepare my student workers for. (The small change begins tomorrow, and the details finally arrived in an email at 2PM. And I had to translate it into 'student' so no one would panic when they couldn't clock in tomorrow morning.) Today he emailed me during work hours, "How's that electrical contract renewal coming?" I panicked, went and found the original email he sent a week ago, and looked at the attachment. The &^%$ contract is up for renewal on May 15th. May.15th. Oh, my gosh. The nicest thing I did all day was to blinking ignore that email.

That's what I remember, too. I hope they are both well.

So what I was trying to say is that cardiac rehab may be awhile down the line for him. He may need PT coming to the house to get him ready for cardiac rehab. Also, a word to the wise: keep a very, very close watch on his voiding output, including both urine and bowel mvmts. It's easy to miss that someone isn't voiding correctly and end up with a catastrophe.

I can remember a couple, Kalanamak and Hornblower come to mind. We've had such wonderful times together over the years as boardies, and I wish we had a chance to enjoy each other's company more IRL. If I were a single woman, and someday if I'm a widow, I will buy a campervan and set out to do the Great American WTM Roadtrip, and see who wants to meet up with me in choice scenic spots for a cuppa. My long term memory is really bad. I know I'm missing some dear folks.

@hellen Can you specify how long it takes most of your patients that age to start cardiac rehab? My dh was extremely fit and much younger, and I don't think he started cardiac rehab for a month. He/we had some extreme complications with calves healing and other gruesome adventures, but even without those I doubt he'd have started earlier. I think the OP's loved one may need both outpatient PT for a time, and then cardiac rehab, unless the health care providers can do both at home. The 12 week program dh was in would definitely take into account an individual's fitness level, but maybe an 80 year old would not be signed up for 12 weeks? (Dh wanted to push the envelope while supervised; if there was to be a catastrophic failure, he wanted it to happen where he could get care.)

Sending a gentle hug, Saraha. What a cra*p day. I'm so sorry, and I hope tomorrow is much better.